What we do with your information

Short version: we use your information to respond to you, provide our services and manage your account. We don’t sell your information, and you can opt out of marketing at any time.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 August 2026

This policy explains what personal information we collect, why we use it and the choices you have.

We’ve written it in plain language so you can understand what happens to your information when you visit our website, contact us or become an Ignyte client.

Who we are

Ignyte is a trading style of Near Me Searches UK Limited.

Near Me Searches UK Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 15965829. Our registered office is:

Innovation House
11 North Street
Pewsey
Wiltshire
SN9 5ES

Near Me Searches UK Limited is the data controller for the personal information covered by this policy.

If you have a question about your information, email hello@weareignyte.co.uk or call 0333 360 8147.

We are not required to appoint a data protection officer. Responsibility for data protection sits with the directors of Near Me Searches UK Limited.

The information we collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with us.

It may include:

  • Your name and business name.
  • Your email address and telephone number.
  • Your business or postal address.
  • Information you include in an enquiry or message.
  • Appointment and meeting details.
  • Information about your business, services and website requirements.
  • Account, contract and billing information.
  • Payment status and Direct Debit information supplied through our payment provider.
  • Emails, messages, support requests and other correspondence.
  • Website content, images, logos and access details you provide when we work with you.
  • Your marketing preferences.
  • Technical information including your IP address, browser, device, operating system and approximate location.
  • Information about how you use our website, where you have allowed the relevant cookies.

We don’t intentionally collect special category information, such as information about health, religion, ethnicity or political opinions, through this website. Please don’t include this kind of information in a general enquiry unless it is genuinely necessary.

Where we get your information

We normally receive personal information directly from you when you:

  • Complete a form on our website.
  • Book a call.
  • Telephone, email or message us.
  • Communicate with us through WhatsApp or social media.
  • Request a quotation.
  • Place an order or enter into an agreement with us.
  • Supply information or content for your website.
  • Ask for support or a change to your service.
  • Change your cookie preferences.

We may also receive business contact information from:

  • Someone within your organisation.
  • A person who has referred or introduced you to us.
  • Publicly available sources, such as your business website, Companies House or a professional social media profile.
  • Our existing business records, where you have previously dealt with another trading style of Near Me Searches UK Limited.

If we receive your information from another source and you would not reasonably expect us to have it, we will provide relevant privacy information when we first contact you or within one month, whichever happens first.

Why we use your information

Responding to enquiries

We use your contact details and the information in your enquiry to understand what you need, respond to you and recommend an appropriate service.

Our lawful basis is taking steps at your request before entering into a contract and our legitimate interest in responding to business enquiries.

Booking and managing calls

We use your name, contact details and appointment information to arrange, confirm and manage calls.

Our lawful basis is taking steps at your request before entering into a contract or performing our agreement with you.

Providing our services

If you become a client, we use your information to:

  • Set up and manage your account.
  • Design, build, host and maintain your website.
  • Register or manage your domain and email services.
  • Provide branding, search, advertising or other agreed services.
  • Communicate with you about your project.
  • Provide support and complete requested changes.
  • Manage ownership transfers and service cancellations.

Our lawful basis is performing our contract with you.

Billing and payments

We use account, billing and payment information to issue invoices, collect Direct Debit payments, manage overdue accounts and maintain financial records.

Our lawful bases are performing our contract, complying with our legal obligations and our legitimate interest in receiving and accounting for payment.

We don’t normally receive or store your full bank account details. These are handled securely by the Direct Debit or payment provider used during sign-up.

Protecting our website and forms

We use technical information to protect our website and enquiry forms from spam, fraud, misuse and security threats.

Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in keeping our website, systems and communications secure.

Understanding and improving our website

Where you allow statistics cookies, we use information about how people find and use the website to understand what is working, identify problems and improve the experience.

Where consent is required, our lawful basis is your consent. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through our cookie settings.

Communicating with existing clients

We may contact existing clients with information about their service, planned maintenance, security, renewals, pricing or other matters connected with their account.

Our lawful basis is performing our contract, complying with legal obligations or our legitimate interest in managing the client relationship.

Service and account messages are not marketing messages.

Marketing

Where permitted, we may send information about Ignyte services, useful updates or relevant offers.

We will rely on consent where the law requires it. In some business-to-business situations, we may rely on our legitimate interest in promoting relevant services to business contacts, provided this is proportionate and would not be unexpected.

You can ask us to stop marketing at any time by using the unsubscribe option in the message or emailing hello@weareignyte.co.uk.

If you opt out, we may retain limited information on a suppression list so we can respect your choice.

Meeting our legal responsibilities

We may use and retain information where necessary to:

  • Maintain tax and accounting records.
  • Respond to legal claims or disputes.
  • Detect or prevent unlawful activity.
  • Protect our legal rights.
  • Respond to a lawful request from a court, regulator or public authority.

Our lawful basis is compliance with a legal obligation or our legitimate interest in protecting the business and its legal rights.

Our legitimate interests

Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests may include:

  • Responding to business enquiries.
  • Managing relationships with clients and business contacts.
  • Keeping our website, forms and systems secure.
  • Preventing spam, misuse and fraud.
  • Improving our website and services.
  • Recovering money owed to us.
  • Protecting and enforcing our legal rights.
  • Promoting relevant services to appropriate business contacts.

We consider the likely effect on the person concerned before relying on legitimate interests. We don’t use this basis where our interests are overridden by someone’s rights or freedoms.

Who we share information with

We don’t sell personal information.

We may share relevant information with trusted service providers that help us operate Ignyte and deliver our services. These may include:

  • Hostinger, for website and database hosting, backups and related infrastructure.
  • Pipedrive, for appointment scheduling and customer relationship management.
  • CleanTalk, for spam and misuse prevention.
  • Complianz, for managing cookie choices and consent information.
  • Google, where services such as Google Analytics, Google Fonts, Google Maps, Search Console or Google Business Profile are used.
  • Meta, where you contact us through WhatsApp, Facebook or another Meta service.
  • Our email hosting and delivery providers.
  • Our Direct Debit and payment providers.
  • Domain registrars and email service providers.
  • Website, hosting, security and technical support providers.
  • Professional advisers, including accountants, solicitors and insurers.
  • Public authorities, regulators, courts or law enforcement where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

We only provide the information reasonably needed for the relevant purpose.

Our service providers must protect the information they handle and may only use it in accordance with our instructions, their contract with us and applicable law.

The services and cookies currently detected on this website are listed in our Cookie Policy.

Client websites and information processed on behalf of clients

When we host or maintain a client’s website, we may process personal information submitted to that website on the client’s behalf.

In that situation:

  • The client is normally the data controller.
  • Near Me Searches UK Limited is normally the data processor.
  • We process the information according to the client’s documented instructions and the data-processing schedule in our agreement.
  • Questions or rights requests relating to information submitted to a client’s website should normally be directed to that client.

This policy applies to information Ignyte uses for its own business purposes. It does not replace the privacy policy of any client website we create or manage.

International transfers

Some of our service providers may process or make personal information accessible outside the United Kingdom.

Where this happens, we require appropriate protection. Depending on the country and provider, this may include:

  • UK adequacy regulations.
  • The UK International Data Transfer Agreement.
  • The UK Addendum to approved standard contractual clauses.
  • Other safeguards permitted by UK data protection law.

Some third-party services, including Google, Meta and Pipedrive, operate internationally. Their own privacy information explains where they process data and the safeguards they use.

You can contact us if you would like more information about the safeguards applying to a particular service.

How long we keep information

We keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably needed.

Our usual retention periods are:

  • General enquiries that don’t become clients: up to 24 months after our last meaningful contact.
  • Client account, contract and project records: for the duration of the relationship and generally for six years afterwards.
  • Invoices, payments and accounting records: generally six years after the end of the relevant financial year.
  • Support requests and important client correspondence: for the duration of the relationship and, where needed, for up to six years afterwards.
  • Unsuccessful quotations: generally up to 24 months after the quotation expires or discussions end.
  • Marketing records: until you opt out or the information is no longer useful, with suppression information retained where needed to respect your choice.
  • Cookie and consent information: for the periods shown in our Cookie Policy and cookie-management system.
  • Website backups: generally retained for up to six weeks before being overwritten.
  • Information needed for a legal claim: for as long as the claim could reasonably be brought or defended.

We may keep information for longer where the law requires it, a dispute is ongoing or there is another lawful reason to do so.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure and understand our website.

Non-essential cookies are not used unless you make the relevant choice through our cookie banner.

Our Cookie Policy explains:

  • Which cookies and services are used.
  • What they do.
  • How long they last.
  • Whether they require consent.
  • How to change or withdraw your choice.

How we protect your information

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. These include, where appropriate:

  • Encryption in transit through HTTPS and TLS.
  • Restricted access to administrative systems.
  • Multi-factor authentication.
  • Password and access controls.
  • Security and software updates.
  • Firewall, malware and spam protection.
  • Regular website backups.
  • Confidentiality obligations for people who handle information.
  • Contracts and data-protection obligations with service providers.

No online service can guarantee complete security, but we review our arrangements and respond to identified risks.

Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

  • Ask for a copy of your personal information.
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Ask us to delete your information.
  • Ask us to restrict how we use your information.
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • Object to direct marketing at any time.
  • Ask us to transfer information you provided to another organisation where the right to data portability applies.
  • Withdraw consent where we rely on consent.

These rights aren’t absolute and some exemptions may apply.

You will not normally have to pay to exercise your rights. We may ask for information needed to confirm your identity before responding.

We will normally respond within one month. If a request is particularly complex, the law may allow us additional time, but we will explain this if it applies.

To exercise a right, email hello@weareignyte.co.uk.

Automated decision-making

We don’t use the personal information covered by this policy to make solely automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on people.

Spam and security services may automatically assess technical information to identify suspicious activity, but these checks don’t make significant decisions about you.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to websites operated by other organisations, including portfolio clients, scheduling services and social media platforms.

We aren’t responsible for how another organisation handles personal information after you leave our website. You should read that organisation’s privacy information before providing personal details.

Children

Ignyte provides business services and this website isn’t designed for children.

We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children through this website. If you believe a child has provided information to us, please contact us.

Complaints

Please contact us first if you are concerned about how we have handled your personal information. We will look into the matter and respond as soon as reasonably possible.

Email: hello@weareignyte.co.uk
Telephone: 0333 360 8147

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: ico.org.uk

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy if our services, systems, providers or legal obligations change.

The latest version will always be published on this page. If we make a significant change to how we use personal information, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of affected people before the new use begins.